Guidelines for reporting the BIS international banking statistics

Last update 22 January 2015

The Guidelines provide compilers in reporting countries with definitions and requirements for the reporting of data. They facilitate the compilation of national data in a consistent and comparable way. The March 2013 version of the Guidelines incorporates the decisions of the Committee on the Global Financial System to collect new data in two stages over the 2012-14 period. It replaces the previous two separate Guidelines for locational and consolidated banking statistics.

Reporting authorities are encouraged to submit the international banking statistics to the BIS using the SDMX standard. The technical guidelines below provide practical information on how to submit the banking statistics to the BIS.

Codes for submitting the banking statistics are provided in the data structure definitions, which are explained in the PDFs below. Templates in Excel format are available to help visualise the data structure and, for those reporting authorities that are unable to create SDMX files directly from their system, to report data to the BIS.

Summaries of checks performed by the BIS to confirm the consistency of reported data are provided below. Reporting authorities are encouraged to implement these checks in their own systems.